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Microsoft announces Windows 10

sweenytodd said:
How do you change it?
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Go to Control Panel and look for Region. Change the locale to English US. enaberif's suggestion is the one I am trying as I got the "something happened" too. I have seen this suggestion elsewhere too.

JD said:
If you're doing a clean install, this key should work: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/..._10240_did_you_get_assigned_a_licenseproduct/

Though there's a "skip" button that should suffice too. I suspect it should activate once it boots into Windows and has proper network connectivity to verify your HWID.
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That is how it should work, as long as the machine you are doing a fresh install on had Win10 activated. From what I have read it should be as simple as skipping entering any keys and just activate once online.
 
chrisk said:
Go to Control Panel and look for Region. Change the locale to English US. enaberif's suggestion is the one I am trying as I got the "something happened" too. I have seen this suggestion elsewhere too.
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Thank you. This worked smoothly. Would definitely spread this solution.
 
Helios79 said:
I am now installing Windows 10 on my desktop, as I was able to take my upgrade ISO and make a USB installer out of it. This effectively skips the queue for having to wait.

Looks like I wasn't able to get away with a clean install on the desktop. Looks like the upgrade keys are different.
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You can clean install.

You have to upgrade first in order to aquire your W10 key, THEN clean install.

I'm running it on 2 laptops so far (work and a media-centric home lappy). Its really just W8 with some new doo-dads. There appears to be almost no learning curve if you came from 8.1. Seems fine.
 
Hrmmmmm.......

So, if I take the time to uninstall all of the unwanted metro apps from my setup is it unreasonable for me to expect that MS isn't going to just arbitrarily re-install them on the next mandatory update cycle????? I have no use for any of the social media crap in my All Apps start menu list (money, sports, food, etc....) so please let's not play the uninstall/re-install games that we used to when I'd remove One Drive........
 
Upgraded my Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit machine at home this morning from a USB drive and a Windows 7 Pro 32-bit machine at work today from direct update. Both went off without a hitch. I had to reinstall DirectX 9.0c for some of my older games, but other than that, no issues at all. Now testing various programs in the office to make sure everything we use at work will run on Windows 10 (the office is totally Windows 7 Pro, both 32-bit and 64-bit).
 
My Dell Convertible just pulled the update. This is the one device I'm really interested in seeing. Haven't seen continuum in action yet. :)
 
Sagath said:
You can clean install.

You have to upgrade first in order to aquire your W10 key, THEN clean install.

I'm running it on 2 laptops so far (work and a media-centric home lappy). Its really just W8 with some new doo-dads. There appears to be almost no learning curve if you came from 8.1. Seems fine.
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While there is a lot similar to Windows 8/8.1 there is enough to make a person have to learn some things. I like the way the new "Settings" system works for example.
 
sswilson said:
Hrmmmmm.......

So, if I take the time to uninstall all of the unwanted metro apps from my setup is it unreasonable for me to expect that MS isn't going to just arbitrarily re-install them on the next mandatory update cycle????? I have no use for any of the social media crap in my All Apps start menu list (money, sports, food, etc....) so please let's not play the uninstall/re-install games that we used to when I'd remove One Drive........
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I did this on my mounted WIM file, but you could replace "/Image:G:\Work\Win10\Mount" with "/Online" instead.

Code: 
DISM /Image:G:\Work\Win10\Mount /Remove-ProvisionedAppxPackage /PackageName:Microsoft.SkypeApp_3.2.1.0_neutral_~_kzf8qxf38zg5c
DISM /Image:G:\Work\Win10\Mount /Remove-ProvisionedAppxPackage /PackageName:Microsoft.Getstarted_2015.622.1108.0_neutral_~_8wekyb3d8bbwe
DISM /Image:G:\Work\Win10\Mount /Remove-ProvisionedAppxPackage /PackageName:Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub_2015.4218.23751.0_neutral_~_8wekyb3d8bbwe

To get a list of AppX package names, run DISM /Online /Get-ProvisionedAppXPackages

I think that may persist through upgrades, since you're fully removing the AppX. By just removing it from the interface-level, it's only deleting it from your user profile. If you log in with another account, they'll all still be there. However, don't come crying to me if they re-install themselves in the next build. :bleh:
 
JD said:
I did this on my mounted WIM file, but you could replace "/Image:G:\Work\Win10\Mount" with "/Online" instead.

Code: 
DISM /Image:G:\Work\Win10\Mount /Remove-ProvisionedAppxPackage /PackageName:Microsoft.SkypeApp_3.2.1.0_neutral_~_kzf8qxf38zg5c
DISM /Image:G:\Work\Win10\Mount /Remove-ProvisionedAppxPackage /PackageName:Microsoft.Getstarted_2015.622.1108.0_neutral_~_8wekyb3d8bbwe
DISM /Image:G:\Work\Win10\Mount /Remove-ProvisionedAppxPackage /PackageName:Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub_2015.4218.23751.0_neutral_~_8wekyb3d8bbwe

To get a list of AppX package names, run DISM /Online /Get-ProvisionedAppXPackages

I think that may persist through upgrades, since you're fully removing the AppX. By just removing it from the interface-level, it's only deleting it from your user profile. If you log in with another account, they'll all still be there. However, don't come crying to me if they re-install themselves in the next build. :bleh:
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Heh... I'd rather not have to dig that deeply into the guts of the OS to remove a few tiles, especially since there's absolutely no guarantee that the buggers wouldn't just put the right back in on the next update cycle. :)

So, I've got 10 on my convertible and can now see why tablet users are complaining so much.... what exactly is continuum supposed to do when I flip over to tablet mode? Looks to me like all it's doing is disabling my touchpad / keyboard and I already had that under 8.1. Is there some form of tablet mode? All I'm seeing is the desktop.
 
I successfully got Windows 10 Pro on to my laptop (Dell XPS l421x). Unfortunately my screen brightness is frozen somewhere at the lower half of the scale, similar to when I went from Win8 to Win8.1, although this time I can't downgrade the GPU drivers back to the Windows 8 ones to get the brightness to work again.
 
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